“A Perfect Surprise for a fresh era, Rachel Slade’s Into the Raging Ocean is a masterful page-turning account of the Un Faro’s sinking.”

-Ben Mezrich, bestselling writer of The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook

On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled in to the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container dispatch Un Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in thirty-five years. No-one could fathom how a vessel equipped with about In to the Raging Ocean: Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro satellite communications, a complicated navigation program, and cutting-edge climate forecasting could instantly vanish-until now.

Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family and maritime experts, as well as the words from the team associates themselves-whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder-journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery of the sinking of El Faro. As she recounts the final twenty-four hours onboard, Slade vividly depicts the officials’ anguish and fear as they battled to handle Captain Michael Davidson’s more and more bizarre commands, which, they understood, would steer them directly into the eye of the storm. Taking a hard look at America’s ageing merchant sea fleet, Slade also reveals the truth about modern shipping-a cut-throat sector plagued by razor-thin revenue and ever more violent hurricanes fueled by global warming.

A richly reported account of a singular tragedy, Into the Raging Sea takes us into the heart of an age-old American industry, casting new light for the hardworking men and women who paid the best cost in the name of revenue.